Re: [Thinkpad] dual boot vs vmware

I have no experience of vmware, so will only comment on dual-booting

i got my T41 2 days ago, and had SuSE9 up and running on dual-boot
within 30mins. the only thing to watch out for is the IBM recovery
thingy part of the HDD, which didn't show very well in the partitioning
admin section of the SuSE installer. I just noted which cylinder the
windows installation ended at, resized windows, and created a new
partition for linux which ended where the original windows one did.
apart from that, the only thing that didn't work out of the box in SuSE
was hardware 3D, which took about 2mins to enable after a quick search
on google. the boot loader i use is Grub, which works fine and was setup
automatically when SuSE was installed.

btw if you're new to linux and don't want too steep a learning curve,
SuSE is highly recommended - it's not to everyone's taste but in terms
of ease of use and system integration it's second to none IMO (inc.
redhat, not tried fedora yet). you can install it via FTP if you don't
want to shell out for the boxed set.

as for file sharing, there's good and bad news. good news is that linux
has full access to all windows files, but if you stick to NTFS this is
read-only. FAT32 is writable by linux so if you use this for the windows
partiton, you're laughing... i may consider in the future setting up a
seperate FAT32 documents partition, shared by both systems, so that all
my files can be read and written by both systems, but at the moment i
don't use windows enough to be bothered :)

hope that helps!

mark

jrdiii@comcast.net wrote:

>Just got a new R50 (to replace my much beloved A20p), running XP and would like to run Linux as well. I'm intested in people's experience in setting up dual boot vs running under VMWare. I'm likely to be running XP most of the time, haven't previously installed/run Linux, and would like to minimize the sysdamin-type overhead (MS's security holes are enough of a job).
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>TIA for real-world experience/opinions.
>
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